Understanding the rise of e-participation in non-democracies: Domestic and international factors

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 142-150

  Åström, Joachim ^a   Karlsson, Martin ^a   Linde, Jonas ^b   Pirannejad, Ali ^c  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Authoritarian regimes; Democratization; E Democracy; E Participation; Globalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860386986     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2011.09.008     Document Type: Article

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